Rifles

Accurateshooter.com has moved its daily bulletin here. And here we are, with a blog post on a custom gun that gives me an itch that wants scratchin', although I'd like that scope in matching...

The New York Times has been blogging about the indisputable suckitude of the Afghan forces' marksmanship, discipline, strategy and every other conflict-related skill you can name. And we've been blogging their blogging, as bloggers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQPfClI7S4o Armalite has news for aspiring owners of the Ar-50A1 rifle: the price of the weapon is . . . staying the same. Credit (or blame depending on your perspective) that whole supply and demand...

"I would like to see if Erin Andrews can dance her way through a hail of gunfire." This unveiled threat and lame-ass pun from yet another "fan" obsessed with the ESPN anchor and...

Unlike most of the mainstream media goldfish, the montrealgazette.com has a long memory. Or excellent archives. Or a writer who can Google. The paper notes that the Ottowa RCMP's decision to deploy Heckler &...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezxBYCw8uGs Don't tell my kids, but I toured Europe on a BMW K100RT motorcycle. The "flying brick" was utterly reliably and Germanically comfortable (tough yet firm). When I returned to base, I looked for something...

“Questions that the strengthening of the defensive capacity of small states may be a threat to someone, I think, are inaccurate,” Putin said in Caracas. “If the United States doesn’t want...

In each of the Dirty Harry movies, star Clint Eastwood got to utter a pithy catchphrase unique to that movie. The first one, of course, was “Do you feel lucky, punk?” (Well do ya?) For...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wU8M-_kokE Hopefully, Part I of this series successfully dispatched the common-but-wrong notion that the AR-15 is merely an “assault rifle” with few practical applications for the non-government shooter. With the civilian-use merits of the AR...

I don't know how, but this has turned into AR-15 week at TTAG. Right after I'm done here, I'm posting the follow-up to Don Gammill Jr.'s first installment of How I Learned to Stop...

Although RGR's revenue growth may have grown nicely over the last two years, its stock price maxed-out on July 27, 2007. Obama triggered a sales surge immediately prior to his election in November 2008. As has been widely reported, rifles--both traditional and "assault" accounted for most of the growth area Ruger rode the wave. According to Ruger's 2009 10-k SEC filing, rifles racked up some $102.2 million, $69.4 million, and $64.9 million worth of sales in 2009, 2008 and 2007 respectively. And no wonder. Ruger makes some lovely "tactical" weapons: the M77 Hawkeye and the Mini-14 spring to mind.

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